Ensino de programação para crianças e adolescentes: um estudo exploratório

Resumo

Several researches have been made showing the importance of teaching and learning programming in different areas, not limited to computer courses. By developing skills that are important as Logical thinking and logic programming, many of these teaching and learning programming studies geared toward the elementary and secondary education. With that, several visual programming languages have been created such as Scratch, Alice, Kodu, Greenfoot and App Inventor for Android. The aim of this study is to conduct a survey and characterization of existing tools for teaching programming to children and teenagers.